Show-box



(No Model.)

M. H.IPULASKI..

Show-Box.

No. 227,128. Patented May 4,1880.

7 Inventor:

Attesl v NvPETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS H. PULASKI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOW-BOX.

SPEGIFIGATIDN forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,128, dated May 4, 188D.

Application filed March 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRRIs. H. PULAsKI, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes for Packing Laces, Embroideries, &c., which improvement is fully andclearly set forth and described in the following specification and accompanying drawings, which form apart thereof.

My invention is an improvement upon that class of embroidery-boxes shown in the Letters Patent granted to me August 5, 1879, and numbered 218,134; and it consists in the addition of one or more supplemental lids or flaps to a box of that description.

The object of my invention is to increase the facility for withdrawing embroidery from the box, and for taking account of stock, and to avoid the necessity of frequently opening the main lid, and thereby exposing the embroidery to the risk of soiling and of becomin g disarranged.

Reference being now had to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a box embracing my invention in the form in which I prefer to use it. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a similar box having its main lid closed, and showing at each end a different way of applying my improvement. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the middle of Fig. 2.

Like letters designate similar parts.

A is the box; B, the main lid; 0 O, supplemental lids; D D, wooden sides of the box E, the embroidery exhibited on the outside of the box 5 f f f, the folds of embroidery; g gg, fastenings for holding the lids down.

The lid B is made shorter than the box, so that when it is closed the ends of the folds in one or both ends of the box are still uncovered. Upon the edge of the lid or the end of the box I hinge a supplemental lid or flap, O or O, which shall cover the exposed ends of the folds of embroidery. The flap 0 (shown in Fig. l) is hinged to the lid, and to which it is attached so as to form part thereof.

The wooden bar D, which bar when closed forms one of the sides of the box, I consider the best and most useful form in which my invention can be applied.

O is a flap or supplemental lid hinged to the side of the box. This arrangement will be found especially desirable when the sample of embroidery is wrapped around the main lid instead of passing through slits in it or in the bottom of the box.

As will be seen, the main, togetherwith one or more supplemental, lids form, when closed, a complete covering for the box. When it is desired to remove any length of embroidery the supplemental lid is opened, and (the fold being, as described in my former patent, in measured lengths) the desired number is counted off and removed at once. An account of stock is taken in the same way. It is thus never necessary to open the main lid except to replace goods drawn out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A box for packing laces, having a lid a portion of which is adapted to exhibit an uncut sample of the contents upon the outside of the box, and provided with a supplemental lid, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

MORRIS H. PULASKI.

Witnesses:

M. H. PULASKI, LIsLE S'roKEs. 

